Today we have the excellent Kent C. Dodds on the program. Kent is an amazing teacher in the web development space, and I've learned a ton from him about React, JavaScript testing, and general web dev.
Lately, Kent has been going all-in on AI, especially with the model context protocol (MCP) space. He's sharing a ton of useful material in this area as he works on a new course. We spent a lot of time going over what MCP is, why it's useful, and why Kent thinks our own personal Jarvis is the next step.
We cover a bunch of other topics too, like what it's like putting on a conference (Epic Web Conf) plus how AI has changed the educational space.
Check it out!
Timestamps
01:12 Start
06:52 The pitch for MCP
14:30 Where does MCP architecturally sit?
17:27 Contrasting with REST
23:07 Should I be building these now?
23:47 Are there any frameworks?
26:31 Why Cloudflare
34:10 MCP Spec
35:35 Authentication
38:29 A2A by Google
41:50 What caught Kent's attention?
44:28 What got Kent interested in React?
46:16 Jarvis
47:44 Frontend Development in the long run
51:44 What needs to get better for this to happen?
57:42 How has AI impacted education landscape?
01:04:46 Like the travel?
01:12:35 App Stack
01:13:48 React Server Components
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